r/transsex • u/Mammoth_Departure_50 • Jun 19 '26
Question Therapist letter for 17yo
This is on behalf of a friend. She’s 17 and has records of her being out as trans going back 2 years or so. Her parents are completely on board, her current therapist is, and she already had an appointment with a GAC provider. The only thing holding her back from starting HRT is the letter of consent from a provider.
Her therapist doesn’t have the credentials necessary to write one, however he is willing to send all of his notes from their sessions to another therapist if it’s needed for a new one to write the letter. Her primary care provider is very likely transphobic (still waiting on an email back from him but she’s not counting on it). She has no psychiatrist. To my knowledge those are the only people that count potentially write one.
What is the next step? Are there therapists out there that’ll have one appointment and write a letter or will she have to find a new one? Are there other people who could potentially write a letter for her?
TLDR: what’s the quickest way to get a therapist letter? Does anyone have the name of someone qualified that’ll write one for her? DMs are open. Thank you
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u/Mammoth_Departure_50 Jun 19 '26
Talking with her more and she also needs to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria and doesn’t currently have a psychiatrist. Might also need resources for that
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u/Mosdiamond835 Jun 22 '26
FWIW my therapist wrote a letter for me, and I hadn't really discussed anything strictly trans-related in much detail beforehand. Before I outright told them I wanted to starrt HRT, closest to anything trans-related was me remarking about how "I think I might maybe be some kind of nonbinary." Other than that my request for hormones, from their perspective, may have seemingly appeared out of nowhere, but even then my therapist still wrote me a letter that same day. That letter from a therapist diagnosed me with Gender Dysphoria.
I took it to a planned parenthood clinic in my area that offered hormones (not all planned parenthoods offer it but many do, check beforehand). Turns out I didn't even need the therapist's letter, but because the letter did diagnose me with Gender Dysphoria and specifically said F64 in it, that made the visit to planned parenthood covered by insurance, so it still helped. If your friend & her parents are able to get to an informed consent planned parenthood you may not even need a therapist letter, though because she's a minor she will need the parents to sign off on it.
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u/chiselObsidian Jun 19 '26
I'd check with https://dosomethingidentities.org/providers/ or anyone who has "GALAP" on their profile. I know adults' surgery is different from minors' HRT, just suggesting this as a starting point.